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ORNAMENTAL VESSEL 0R ARTIGLE. No. 404,785. Patented June 4, 1889.v

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THOMAS E. GIBSON, OF GLASGOWV, COUNTY OF LANARK, SCOTLAND.

ORNAMENTAL VESSEL OR ARTICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,785, dated June 4, 1889. Application filed June 8, 1888. Serial N0. 2'76,536. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS BOWE GIBSON, a subject of the Queen of Great Eritain and Ireland, and a resident of Glasgow, in the county of Lanark, Scotland, have invented certain Improvements in Ornamental Vessels or Articles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improve.

ments in the manufacture and ornamentation of vessels or receptaclessuch as jars, socalled specimen-glasses, and the like to imitate earthenware, china, porcelain, terracotta, and such like, the object being to combine with a foundation or body substance woven fabrics which will be laid onto or can adhere or be drawn over the articles formed from the body or foundation material.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated some examples of vessels in which my invention is embodied; but I do not wish to restrict myself to any special style or form of the vessel or article to be ornamented. I

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a vesselan umbrella-jar, for instance-to be ornamented. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a piece of fabric to be employed in the decoration; and Fig. 3 is a view of the vessel, Fig. 1, as ornamented.

The invention is carried out as follows:

, The foundation or body giving the form of the article or vessel, Fig. 1, may be made of papier-mach or straw-board, earthenware, stiffened felt, linoleum, corticine, lincrusta, oil-cloth, kamptulicon, and such like substances stiffened to form the article, or the body may be formed of thin metal or wood, plain or perforated.

The woven or knitted fabrics employed to cover the article or vessel may be of cotton or wool or silk, or be mixed fabrics or unions such as cotton and wool, or silk and wool, or cotton and silk whether plain or knitted or figuredor of lace or net fabric, such as indicated in Fig. 2.

The woven or knitted fabrics are of openwork, and are laid onto the body or stretched over the body of the vessel which is colored or ornamented, so that the coloring or pattern will be disclosed through the texture of the fabric, which may itself be ornamented or carry a pattern 1), Fig.2, to combine with the body pattern or coloring, and -these fabrics may be of varying textile combinations.

The applied fabrics of heavy texture will themselves be ornamented in color or pattern previously to their being applied to the body. The body of the article may also be formed from a material, such as linoleum, and so forth, oil-cloth or carpet, with jute or linen back stiffened for the purpose, and the ornamentation can be produced by printing, staining, or by being woven thereupon before the formation of the article.

The fabric pieces may also be produced and sold as slipsthat is, 'sleeves of material, which may be then applied as decoration to existing bodies.

In the decoration of the fabrics the same designs may be formed by weaving, embroidering, tambouring, braiding, or any other ornamentation produced by machine or hand work, or it may be produced by printing or by stamping, impressing, or flocking, or by painting by hand or otherwise a combination of these.

The surfaces may be finished by the application of a hard-setting varnish or otherwise.

I claim as my invention 1. An ornamental vessel or article consisting of the combination of a foundation or body substance with a woven-fabric covering of open-work stretched over the foundation and showing the color or ornamentation of the latter, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

- 2. An ornamental vessel or article consisting of the combination of a foundation or body substance with a woven-fabric covering of open-work carrying a design or ornamentation and stretched over the foundation, but showing through it the color of the latter, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

T. B. GIBSON.

lVitnesses:

PETER H. WADDELL, WILLIAM SHAW. 

